CHAMBER MUSIC The free concert on Friday night at Harvard’s Paine Hall from Chiara Quartet (pictured) includes rarely encountered music by Theodor Adorno; Saturday night the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts presents a chamber program called “Light and Shadow”; Sunday afternoon the Gardner Museum hosts the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and, coincidentally, CMS’s artistic directors — David Finckel (cello) and Wu Han (piano) — drop by the Celebrity Series with Beethoven’s complete Cello Sonatas at Jordan Hall; Sunday night, Michael Norsworthy (clarinet) and David Gompper (piano) offer a modern-tilted recital program, “The American Clarinet,” at Boston Conservatory, while the Boston Chamber Music Society opens its season with music by Schubert, Mozart, and Walton. www.chiaraquartet.net, www.chineseperformingarts.net, www.gardnermuseum.org, www.celebrityseries.org, www.bostonconservatory.edu, www.bostonchambermusic.org